Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.